1988 England rugby union tour of Australia and Fiji
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Matches
- Scores and results list England's points tally first.
Opposing Team For Against Date Venue Status Queensland Country 39 9 17/05/1988 Quarry Hill Rugby Park, Mackay Mackay, QueenslandMackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar....
Tour Match Queensland Queensland RedsThe Queensland Reds represent Queensland in the sport of rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996 they were a representative team selected on merit from the rugby union club competitions in Queensland...
22 19 22/05/1988 Ballymore Ballymore StadiumBallymore is the name of a rugby union stadium situated in Herston, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It was the home of Queensland Rugby Union, and used to be the home ground for the Queensland Reds and the Brisbane Strikers Football Club. The Queensland Reds have since moved to Suncorp Stadium...
, BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
Tour Match Queensland 'B' 19 7 25/05/1988 Gold Park, Toowoomba Toowoomba, QueenslandToowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...
Tour Match Australia Australia national rugby union teamThe Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...
16 22 29/05/1988 Ballymore Ballymore StadiumBallymore is the name of a rugby union stadium situated in Herston, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It was the home of Queensland Rugby Union, and used to be the home ground for the Queensland Reds and the Brisbane Strikers Football Club. The Queensland Reds have since moved to Suncorp Stadium...
, BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
First Test Test match (rugby union)Test match in rugby union is a match recognised as being a full international match by at least one of the participating teams' governing bodies. It is an unofficial but widely used term in the sport....South Australia Invitation XV 37 10 01/06/1988 Hindmarsh Stadium Hindmarsh StadiumHindmarsh Stadium is a rectangular stadium located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the home of the Australian A-League team, Adelaide United....
, AdelaideAdelaideAdelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
Tour Match New South Wales New South Wales WaratahsThe New South Wales Waratahs are an Australian rugby union football team, representing the majority of New South Wales in the Super 15 Super Rugby competition...
12 23 05/06/1988 Waratah Stadium Concord OvalConcord Oval is a rugby stadium in Concord, Australia. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and was used for eight matches during the 1987 Rugby World Cup. The stadium is able to hold 20,000 people and opened in 1985....
, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
Tour Match New South Wales 'B' 25 9 08/05/1988 Brandon Park, Wollongong Wollongong, New South WalesWollongong is a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the narrow coastal strip between the Illawarra Escarpment and the Pacific Ocean, 82 kilometres south of Sydney...
Tour Match Australia Australia national rugby union teamThe Australian national rugby union team is the representative side of Australia in rugby union. The national team is nicknamed the Wallabies and competes annually with New Zealand and South Africa in the Tri-Nations Series, in which they also contest the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand and the...
8 28 12/06/1988 Waratah Stadium Concord OvalConcord Oval is a rugby stadium in Concord, Australia. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and was used for eight matches during the 1987 Rugby World Cup. The stadium is able to hold 20,000 people and opened in 1985....
, SydneySydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
Second Test Test match (rugby union)Test match in rugby union is a match recognised as being a full international match by at least one of the participating teams' governing bodies. It is an unofficial but widely used term in the sport....Fiji Fiji national rugby union teamThe Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance formerly along with Samoa and Tonga. In 2009, Samoa announced their departure from the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, leaving just Fiji and Tonga. Fiji are ranked sixteenth in the world by the IRB as of 26...
25 12 16/06/1988 National Stadium National Stadium (Suva)National Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Suva, Fiji. It is currently used mostly for rugby league, rugby union and football matches. The stadium holds 10,000....
, SuvaSuvaSuva features a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen climate classification. The city sees a copious amount of precipitation during the course of the year. Suva averages 3,000 mm of precipitation annually with its driest month, July averaging 125 mm of rain per year. In fact,...
Test Match Test match (rugby union)Test match in rugby union is a match recognised as being a full international match by at least one of the participating teams' governing bodies. It is an unofficial but widely used term in the sport....
Touring party
- Manager: G.D. CookeGeoff CookeGeoff Cooke OBE is a former England Rugby coach.-Early career:During his playing career he played mainly as a Centre/Fly Half 1962-72 and captained his Club and his County. Cooke also attended York St John University. He was coach to Bradford RFC 1973 to 1975, coach to Yorkshire Rugby Football...
- Assistant Coaches: A.B.C. Davies and D. Robinson
- Captain: J. Orwin (Bedford) 12 Caps
Full Backs
- R. Adamson (Top points scorer of the tour) (Wakefield)Wakefield RFCWakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901, and which dropped out of the English leagues in 2004 as a result of the effects of professionalism...
No Caps - J.M. WebbJonathan WebbJonathan Mark Webb is a former English rugby union footballer who represented England in 33 Test matches. He played for two clubs, first Bristol and then Bath where he played mainly at fullback. His career representing England lasted between 1987 and 1993, and he scored a total of 296 points for...
(Bristol) 9 Caps
Three-Quarters
- B. BarleyBryan BarleyBryan Barley was a former England international rugby union centre.He was educated at Normanton Grammar School and Leeds University where he studied economics and mathematics....
(Wakefield)Wakefield RFCWakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901, and which dropped out of the English leagues in 2004 as a result of the effects of professionalism...
4 Caps - J. Bentley (Sale) 1 Cap
- J.R.D. Buckton (Saracens) No Caps
- B. Evans (Leicester) No Caps
- S.J. HallidaySimon HallidaySimon John Halliday is a former English rugby union international. He also played nine first-class cricket cricket matches...
(Bath) 6 Caps - R. UnderwoodRory UnderwoodRory Underwood MBE is a former English rugby union footballer who played wing for, most notably, Leicester Tigers and Bedford. He represented England and the British Lions and is a former Royal Air Force pilot....
(RAF/Leicester) 24 Caps
Half-Backs
- C.R. AndrewRob AndrewChristopher Robert "Rob" Andrew MBE , nicknamed "Squeaky", is a former English rugby union footballer and currently Director of Operations at the RFU. He was formerly the Director of Rugby of Newcastle Falcons. As a player, Andrew was assured in his kicking and defensive skills off both feet...
(Wasps) 17 Caps - S. BarnesStuart BarnesStuart Barnes is a former English rugby union footballer, and now rugby commentator for Sky Sports. Barnes played fly-half for Newport RFC, Bristol, Bath; and represented England and the British Lions at international level.-Biography:Born in Essex, Barnes was educated at Rougemont and Bassaleg...
(Bath) 7 Caps - R.M. HardingRichard HardingRichard Harding is a former rugby union international who played for England and on his last test captained them. He also played club rugby for his home city of Bristol and was part of Bristol RFC's cup winning side of 1983...
(Bristol) 9 Caps - S. Robson (Moseley) No Caps
Replacements
- W.D.C. CarlingWill CarlingWilliam David Charles Carling, OBE is a former Rugby union player for Harlequins, and a former captain of England from 1988 to 1996, winning 72 caps.-Early life:...
(Harlequins) 5 Caps - T. Buttimore (Leicester) No Caps
Forwards
- G.C. ChilcottGareth ChilcottGareth James Chilcott is a former rugby union player, who played at prop for Bath and England.He made his England debut against Australia in 1984...
(Bath) 9 Caps - R.G.R. DaweGraham DaweRichard Graham Reed Dawe is a former English rugby union footballer and the former coach of Plymouth Albion.He played for Bath Rugby, Sale Sharks, Plymouth Albion and Launceston RFC....
(Bath) 4 Caps - W.A. DooleyWade DooleyWade Dooley is a former England rugby union international who played lock forward. He played for his country 55 times and was known as the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 inches tall and a police officer with Lancashire Constabulary in Blackpool.Dooley was born in Warrington,...
(Preston Grasshoppers) 20 Caps - D.W. EgertonDavid EgertonDavid Egerton is a former a rugby union international who represented England from 1988 to 1990.-Rugby union career:Egerton made his international debut on Apr 23, 1988 at Lansdowne Road in the Ireland vs England match....
(Bath) 1 Cap - B.C. Moore (Nottingham) 9 Caps
- J. OrwinJohn OrwinJohn Orwin is a former Rugby union lock.He captained on the ill fated tour to Australia in 1988.-External links:* * *...
(Bedford) 12 Caps - G.S. Pearce (Northampton) 34 Caps
- J.A. ProbynJeff ProbynJeff Probyn is an English former Rugby Union player.The Askeans, Streatham and Wasps prop was selected in England's squad for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, but Probyn did not make his international debut until 1988, at the age of 31, against France...
(Wasps) 5 Caps - N.C. RedmanNigel RedmanNigel Redman born 16th August 1964 in Cardiff is a retired England International rugby union lock.He made his England debut in November 1984 v Australia at Twickenham losing 19-3. He made his final appearance in July 1997 again v Australia but this time in Sydney but again losing 25-6. In total he...
(Bath) 7 Caps - G.W. Rees (Nottingham) 14 Caps
- P.A.G. Rendell (Wasps) 15 Caps
- D. RichardsDean Richards (rugby player)Dean Richards is a former England and British & Irish Lions rugby union player. He had a long playing career with Leicester Tigers, and played 48 times for England and six times for the British & Irish Lions.-Club career:...
(Leicester) 11 Caps - R.A. RobinsonAndy RobinsonRichard Andrew 'Andy' Robinson OBE is an English rugby union coach and retired player. He is currently the head coach of Scotland.Robinson played as an openside flanker for Bath, England and the British and Irish Lions...
(Bath) No Caps - M.G. Skinner (Harlequins) 5 Caps